“you wouldn’t download a car” meme format but instead it says “you wouldn’t winter’s night a traveler”

wait did I really never post this one

"Can I Make Glass At Home" is something you google when you're like 9+ levels deep in a hobby that isn't glassmaking.

📢 Incredibly excited to announce I signed with a publisher!

My retro tycoon game 'Car Park Capital' will be published by MicroProse!
The one behind classics like Transport Tycoon and Civilization.

Thanks everyone for the support so far! 🙏

s.team/a/3031880

Filing this away in my brain as a perfect example of socialism.

Thank you VLC Media Player for being there for us.

Its #PitchYaGame time!
in Shape Sender Deluxe, Sendy (your new best friend) teaches you how to bounce, float, and teleport shapes from A to B!

⭐️ Physics-puzzle goodness
🟨 Talk, banter (and find out what's up) with Sendy
🟡 Creative, open ended solutions

Wishlist now and play the demo!

wishlist plz, we need this to happen. the world needs it. like, for research purposes

gamedev is when random people are one light beer bender away from deploying something like "controls making a game harder means the controls are bad" at you

flowerbots are participating in southeast asian games showcase, june 6-20

proud to be a part of seagshowcase.bsky.social!

we just pushed a new fancy version of our bouncy idle incremental game on steam!

automate your garden with bots, solve anomalies, and watch numbers go up 📈

flowerbots! go check them out 🌸

store.steampowered.com/app/3422670/...

One for the level designers: David Umemoto.

flowerbots are participating in southeast asian games showcase, june 6-20

proud to be a part of seagshowcase.bsky.social!

we just pushed a new fancy version of our bouncy idle incremental game on steam!

automate your garden with bots, solve anomalies, and watch numbers go up 📈

flowerbots! go check them out 🌸

store.steampowered.com/app/3422670/...

Cozy #PitchYaGame unite!

The Regreening is a cozy nature-restoration game about healing🌾

🌱grow living ecosystems
🦉become friends with ancient spirits
🔥 share stories by the bonfire
💧 engineer water & land to make nature thrive
🌿 watch the world bloom again

Follow us so you don't miss the demo!

key art of Tails Noir: Rebel Rush with a note that it is compatible with Steam Deck now

our speedrunning driving platformer Tails Noir: Rebel Rush is now steam deck verified 😊

store.steampowered.com/app/3001200/...

preview of a youtube video of real civil engineer playing flowerbots

OMG REAL CIVIL ENGINEER PLAYED FLOWERBOTS

this is unbelievable and a big day for our tiny little team and an insane motivational boost

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyW3...

The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East PAX East felt like a warning: explosively successful games by solo devs and small teams are great, but it could lead to a dearth of vital specialists.

Very interesting to see the game industry talk about this phenomenon as 'deprofessionalisation'. Definitely more visible now in the wake of all the layoffs, but really this has been unfolding for 15+ years now as both platformisation and gigification.

www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-de...

enjoyed @stevelee.bsky.social 's talk about level design process in tactical breach wizards gdcvault.com/play/1035209... (free!)... my fav slides:

From 'Persona' to 'Metaphor: ReFantazio': Creating a Visual Identity for a New Series This session will introduce the process of realizing the UI style of

The incredible Metaphor UI panel from GDC is now *completely free* to watch on the GDC Vault, even without an account. I absolutely implore anyone that has any interest whatsoever to watch it:

gdcvault.com/play/1035332...

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, why is it so difficult to program, and why is it the gold standard for fighting games? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev #AnimationVERSUS

The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...?

🧵

Here’s some gameplay from our microwave-controlled horror game.

Movement is handled entirely by turning the dials.

#indiedev #gamedev #wishlistwednesday

WOAH MY GDC TALK IS AVAILABLE ON THE VAULT (for everyone to watch for free, holy heck i'm SCREAMING)

gdcvault.com/play/1035068...

My GDC talk on tabletop design in UFO 50 is now online!

🙏 Thanks to @trentkusters.bsky.social & @mossmouth.bsky.social for helping with the talk & to @officialgdc.bsky.social for hosting & not paywalling it

💬 I'll try to answer any questions in this thread

🔗 gdcvault.com/play/1035154...

preview of a youtube video of real civil engineer playing flowerbots

OMG REAL CIVIL ENGINEER PLAYED FLOWERBOTS

this is unbelievable and a big day for our tiny little team and an insane motivational boost

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyW3...

FlowerBots Demo on Steam Flowerbots is a chill and bouncy incremental game with synergies, strategic optimizations and a whole playground for your physical experiments!

FlowerBots

Couldn't put down the idler, so here it is again. Lucky for me the demo has a soft stop, or I'd still be playing 😅

store.steampowered.com/app/3422670/... & soupwithfriends.itch.io/flowerbots-d...
#videogame #indiedev #demo #steamnextfest #idlergame #incrementalgame #indiegame #gamedev

steam next fest banner

🏵️ Flowerbots are joining the Steam Next Fest! 🏵️

our chill & bouncy idler got a new updated demo, the garden is ready and waiting for your experiments with builds and synergies!

#indiegames #steamnextfest #nextfest #demo

store.steampowered.com/app/3422670/...

steam next fest banner

🏵️ Flowerbots are joining the Steam Next Fest! 🏵️

our chill & bouncy idler got a new updated demo, the garden is ready and waiting for your experiments with builds and synergies!

#indiegames #steamnextfest #nextfest #demo

store.steampowered.com/app/3422670/...

Friends, FRIENDS!
🧛‍♀️Cabernet, our Vampiric RPG, is OUT NOW.🍷

This piece of our hearts has been years in the making, and we couldn’t be more grateful for this wild, spectacular journey.

You can buy it now on all major platforms!👇
(And reviews mean more than you can imagine🖤)

omg, thank you so much!! so happy to hear that you enjoyed it 😊🙏🩷

I honest to god have no actual idea how to make a video game

steadb chart that displays that 100+ played our game simultaneously

woke up and saw that 100+ people played our game simultaneously. that's so many people!!!!!!!! unbelievable!!! 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

UI layout of the game Flowerbots in the style of the show Severance

I didn't want to remake the game UI once again, but severance got in my eye